A team of sports scientists and cognitive biologists at the University of Vienna has demonstrated in a new study that solving a task together can promote spontaneous movement synchronization. Such synchronization serves as a kind of “social glue” and plays an important role in the social functioning of communities.
Those who work together tend to move in sync, trampoline experiment shows
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